Concept of “Tolerance” in the Modern Linguistic Picture of the World

Today, the issues of interethnic and interfaith interaction in our country are quite acute, therefore, the study of political concepts that determine the ways of interaction between different people is relevant. One of these concepts is “tolerance”. The purpose of this study is to study the conceptual meaning of the concept of “tolerance”" using the research method of sentence deployment. This method has not been used before to study the concept of “tolerance”. The article describes the results of an experiment with the stimulus word “tolerance”. The reactions were analyzed from the point of view of their communicative orientation, and in this we relied on the dialogical understanding of the associative experiment, stated by Y.N. Karaulov. Also, the results of our associative experiment were compared with the already described results of the analysis of media discourse and the results of a free associative experiment. The study showed a two-component structure of the concept of “tolerance”: it combines, on the one hand, ideological, value content and, on the other hand, behavioral, normalizing content. It is the value component that is dominant. Within the framework of behavioral tolerance, the communicative aspect is singled out separately. The difference in communicative behavior was also determined within the framework of a directed associative experiment of men and women – the latter more often than the former declared their own position. The communicative behavior of respondents is also likely to be influenced by the specifics of the stimulus word itself: in our case, respondents talked more about their attitude to it than they described it.